colleens

It was no malice, no love of mischief, that made him imagine, instead of colleens of the old sort and the good young men of Boucicault,195 blind Martin and his wife, in The Well of the Saints, the erring wife in The Shadow of the Glen, the fantastic mistaken hero-worship of the people in his Playboy of the Western World.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Enjoy the Irish lads or the fair colleens, if that's your thing!

Archive 2006-03-01 2006

Enjoy the Irish lads or the fair colleens, if that's your thing!

Begosh And Begorra! 2006

Then, in an exaggerated brogue: “Especially colleens with the map of Oirland writ large across their loovly countenance.”

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

Then, in an exaggerated brogue: “Especially colleens with the map of Oirland writ large across their loovly countenance.”

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

Then, in an exaggerated brogue: “Especially colleens with the map of Oirland writ large across their loovly countenance.”

The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

"Well, with that cat-ate-the-cream lilt in your voice, Kevin, I'd say it had to be either a pair of Irish colleens or a leprechaun with a pot of gold."

Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

Just fill a glass, drink a toast, invite the colleens in

Come in, Come in 1999

This is possible enough, for the period was one when squires exercised "seigneurial rights," and when colleens were complacent.

The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

"Why, it's his death he'll get with the dampness up there, and those blessed little colleens."

Red-Robin Jane Abbott